COVID-19 Task Force

Task Force Members CHAIR Saima Aslam, MD, MS, UCSD Medical Center, San Diego, CA USA INFECTIOUS DISEASES Silvia V. Campos, PhD, Heart Institute of São Paulo Medical School HCFMUSP, São Paulo, Brazil Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH USA Michael Ison, MD, MS, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL USA Cameron Wolfe, MD, Duke University Medical Center, Chapel Hill, NC USA CARDIOLOGY Marco Masetti, MD, PhD, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Jignesh Patel, MD, PhD, Cedars-Sinai Smite Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA USA Yael Peled, MD, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY Marcelo Cypel, MD, Univeristy Health Network, Toronto, ON Canada Goran Dellgren, MD, PhD, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden PHARMACY Patricia Ging, MSc, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland PULMONOLOGY Are Holm, MD, PhD, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway Monique Malouf, FRACP, St. Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst, Australia Robin Vos, MD, PhD, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Recommendations from the COVID-19 Task Force ISHLT/AST/ASTS Joint Statement About COVID-19 Vaccination In Organ Transplant Candidates and Recipients 30 December, 2021 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination in Heart and Lung Transplantation (21 May, 2021) Deceased donor and recipient selection for cardiothoracic transplantation during the COVID-19 pandemic (14 April, 2021)

Task Force Members

Chair
Saima Aslam, MD, MS, USA

Infectious Diseases
Silvia V. Campos, PhD, Brazil
Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH, USA
Paolo A. Grossi, MD, PhD, Italy
Shahid Husain, MD, MS, Canada
Me-Linh Luong, MD, Canada
Fernanda P. Silveira, MD, MS, USA

Cardiology
Eric D. Adler, MD, USA
Enrico Ammirati, MD, PhD, Italy
Raymond Benza, MD, USA
Marta Farrero Torres, MD, PhD, Spain
Maria Frigerio, MD, Italy
Daniel R. Goldstein, MD, USA
Mandeep R. Mehra, MBBs, MSc, FRCP, USA
Luciano Potena, MD, PhD, Italy
Jeffrey Teuteberg, MD, USA

Cardiothoracic Surgery
Marcelo Cypel, MD, Canada
Stephan Ensminger, MD, DPhil, Germany
Daniel J. Goldstein, MD, USA
Jan F. Gummert, MD, PhD, Germany

Pharmacy
Patricia Ging, MSc, Ireland
Michael Shullo, PharmD, USA

Pulmonology
Christian Benden, MD, MBA, FCCP, Switzerland
Marie M. Budev, DO, MPH, USA
Andrew Courtwright, MD, PhD, USA
Maria M. Crespo, MD, USA
Are Holm, MD, PhD, Norway
Peter Hopkins, FRACP, Australia
Erika D. Lease, MD, USA
Federica Meloni, MD, PhD, Italy
Lianne G. Singer, MD, FRCPC, Canada
Stuart C. Sweet, MD, PhD, USA
 

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Recommendations from the COVID-19 Task Force

• ISHLT/AST/ASTS Joint Statement About COVID-19 Vaccination In Organ Transplant Candidates and Recipients 13 March, 2022
• Deceased donor and recipient selection for cardiothoracic transplantation during the COVID-19 pandemic (14 April, 2021)